Rugadiscina rugata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RugadiscinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
29 occurrences of Rugadiscina rugata on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
29 occurrences- Silurian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
10 formations
- Overton Formation19
- Whitcliffe Beds Formation1
- Bringewood Beds Formation1
- Slite Formation1
- Upper Whitcliffe Formation1
- Leintwardine Formation1
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The named rock units Rugadiscina rugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rugadiscina rugata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rugadiscina rugata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Protochonetes ludloviensis23 sites
- Salopina lunata22 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina21 sites
- Craniops17 sites
- Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis17 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula17 sites
- Serpulites16 sites
- Michelinoceras14 sites
- Cytherellina13 sites
- Pseudolingula lewisii13 sites
- Ceramopora12 sites
- Hyolithes12 sites
- Kionoceras12 sites
- Leioclema12 sites
- Crinoidea11 sites
- Pteronitella11 sites
- Calcaribeyrichia10 sites
- Loxonema obsoleta10 sites
- Nuculites10 sites
- Pterinea10 sites
- Dayia navicula9 sites
- Phragmosphaera expansus9 sites
- Atrypa reticularis8 sites
- Cornulites8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Rugadiscina rugata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
8 references- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England19
- The geology of the May Hill Inlier3
- Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland2
- First occurrence of a Silurian linguloid brachiopod with soft tissue preservation in Wales1
- Fossil communities of the late Ludlow and early Pridoli in Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
- Polish Ludlow-Lower Devonian communities1
- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire1
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland1
Each of the 29 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rugadiscina rugata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rugadiscina rugata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rugadiscina rugata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRugadiscina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1839)